forms and functions

[Anon]

HI all, I'm a novice using PHP and I stuck with something I´m sure its easy to solve.
I would like to pass directly the data collected by a form to a php function. Is this possible???? If not, what do I need to do to pass the form information to my function???

             Thanks in advice,

                Alejandro Islas

                  Mexico

[sourcecode]

Sure this is possible Alejandro.

You can do something like this:

send.html:
<form action=send.php method=post>
Your name: <input type=text name=name><br>
Your phone: <input type=text size=10 name=pno><br>
</form>

By setting the variables in the fields(input, select, textarea, etc) you can use them as normal variables on PHP.

send.php:
function print_info($name, $pno) {
echo "Given name \"$name\"<br>Phone Number: $pno<br>";
}

print_info($name, $pno);

[techek]

You could also say that all elements in a form (like <textarea>, <input .. > and even submit-buttons) will have their values "converted" into PHP-variables. This means that :

<form action="page.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="something" value="">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Test!">
</form>

.. will return two (2!) variables :

$something = <whatever you typed in the text-field>
$submit = "Test!";

.. which you in turn will be able to use in your PHP script as much as you like.

Hint : You just might want to check out some of the basic stuff like variables at http://www.php.net/variables (Happy coding!)